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DCP-LETT-12073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
31 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 83
Summary:

Sends a letter [missing] on the chance that GHD might give the writer information about tides.

Rejoices at GHD’s friendship with Sir W. Thomson and grand vein of research he has struck on.

First draft of life of Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] is nearly finished.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12072

From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 156–7
Summary:

Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].

Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12071

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4)
Summary:

CD’s sister-in-law, S. E. Wedgwood, is willing to refund £10 of the money paid for her land if the Ecclesiastical Commissioners will write saying she ought to do so, or if a qualified surveyor proves that the first measurement was wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4)
Summary:

The official parish tithe map shows that a greater error than at first thought was made in measuring Miss Wedgwood’s land. She was overpaid £15 10s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albin Gaertner
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4312/2)
Summary:

Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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